Cleaned Out
by Annie Ernaux
4.2
(6 ratings)130 pages1974Dalkey Archive PressISBN 9781564781390
ClassicsJuvenile NonfictionCharacter drivenStrong Character DevelopmentUnloveable CharactersNot Diverse CharactersFictionGeneral
challengingreflectivefast
About this book
Cleaned Out tells the story of Denise Lesur, a 20-year-old woman suffering the after-effects of a back-alley abortion. Alone in her college dorm room, Denise attempts to understand how her suffocating middle-class upbringing has brought her to such an awful present. Ernaux, one of France's most important contemporary writers, daringly breaks with formal French literary tradition in this moving novel about abortion, growing up, and coming to terms with one's childhood.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Published
- 1974
- Pages
- 130
- ISBN
- 9781564781390
About Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux (née Duchesne; born 1 September 1940) is a French writer and professor of literature. Her literary work, mostly autobiographical, maintains close links with sociology. Ernaux was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory". [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Ernaux)
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